1. George Washington Palmer’s parents and wife’s names in Louise Pearsons Dolliver, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 23 (Washington, D.C.: D.A.R., 1907), 259–60. “Col.[!] Geo. W. Palmer/Born July 11, 1810/died/Jan. 10, 1889/Amanda M. Palmer/Born April 8, 1813/Died Sept. 13, 1884,” inscription on his gravestone (digital image), “Capt. George Washington Palmer,” Findagrave. George Washington Palmer, b. New York, near Utica, d. 10 Jan. 1889 Chicago, occupation agriculturist, widowed, bu. Monmouth, “Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878–1922,” database, Ancestry, citing “Illinois, Cook County Birth Deaths, 1878–1922,” index, FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, citing Illinois Department of Public Health, Birth and Death Records, 1916[!]–present, Division of Vital Records, Springfield. Baptism record for Amanda (d. Nathan Jr. & Anna) in Early Records of Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Members of the Congregational Church, East Hampton (Chatham), Conn. (Middletown, CT: Pelton & King, 1900), 101. In the baptism records of their other children Philena Ann is called Philena. Philena Ann Clark married Nathan Harding in McPherson, Ancestry of Addie Clark Harding, 23.
2. Luff, Journal of George Palmer, 1.
4. John Gerrity, “George Washington Palmer: Farmer, Officer, Mayor,” online article, Monmouth College (https://department.monm.edu), citing Monmouth Atlas, 16 July 1847, 2, 23 July 1847, 3, 6 August 1847, 2, Illinois State Military Museum (https://www.il.ngb.army.ml).
5. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1850 > IL > Warren > not stated > image 184, lines 27–35, entry for George W. Palmer.
6. The Past and Present of Warren County, Illinois (Chicago: H.F. Kett & Co., 1877), 133.
7. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1860 > IL > Warren > Monmouth > image 86, lines 22–27, entry for G.W. Palmer.
8. “Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls,” entries for George W. Palmer.
9. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1870 > IL > Winnebago > Harrison > image 4, lines 9–11 George W. Palmer, Amanda Palmer, Jane Palmer, 43, born in New York, portrait painter, Herman C. Palmer, 23, born Illinois, farmer; 1880 > IL > Winnebago > Harrison > district 221 > image 3, lines 48–50, image 4, line 1, entries for George W. Palmer.
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